Ajla Obradovic is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
Anything is possible in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “Year of The Family,” as he calls 2024. Even fining those who promote “hostile childfree ideology.” While Putin says a family with three kids should become the norm, critics say having children is a personal choice.
Bosnian Dzemil Hodzic's search through the backwaters of the Internet for wartime memories of his late brother results in a miracle.
It has been a dozen years since local elections were held in the beautiful Bosnian city of Mostar, but that will change on December 20. Here's a dazzling look at Mostar's messy situation and the upcoming vote.
Ognjen Gajic, a lung expert and critical care specialist at the prestigious Mayo Clinic in the northern U.S. state of Minnesota, was interviewed by RFE/RL's Balkan Service about the coronavirus and the disease’s symptoms and treatment.
There are still dozens of schools in Bosnia-Herzegovina where children are divided according to their ethnicity, a system referred to as “two schools under one roof.” Usually it is Croat and Bosniak students who are separated -- which includes fences on the playgrounds -- and attend different classes, all under "one roof." This video explainer by Balkan Service correspondent Ajla Obradovic takes a look at this issue and shows how an interethnic marriage created hope within the backward system.
It has been one year since the October 7, 2018 general elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the country is still without a national and many lesser governments as the country's 148 parties(!) -- many of them ethnically based -- fail to form coalitions. Many people also blame Bosnia's elaborate, overlapping, and many-layered governments for the ongoing dysfunction. Here's an attempt to explain Bosnia's labyrinthian governmental system.
He survived the Srebrenica massacre, but the school in his Bosniak village follows a Bosnian Serb curriculum that denies the genocide happened.
The WHO says residents of nine out of 10 European cities are experiencing health effects due to their exposure to elevated levels of air pollutants. Just ask people in the Balkans.
